the laura. bush. governor it was recently revealed that the u.s. military spends ten times as much buying pills for soldiers with erectile dysfunction than it does on health care for transgender soldier is that when it comes to the latter the trumpet ministration claims that the costs are so tremendous they must be cut so let's look at the numbers now in twenty fourteen by agrah cost the pentagon over forty one million dollars alone in comparison an analysis from the rand corporation has found that health care for transgender soldiers only increases the budget between two million and eight million dollars per year and amount that rand says has little impact on overall d.o.d. health care expenditures here's a clip from a speech that you gave in one thousand nine hundred eight when you were first running for governor when you're in the military you work with every race creed color and nationality it doesn't come down to any of that it comes down to can you get the job done and that's how you respect each other. governor that still rings

true today doesn't well it's still it's still rings true and on camera. laughing a little bit and i got to go back and review we spend the whole much money. ten times as much on you as i was a moment tell me this number forty millions. feed on the forty billion dollars are grow are you kidding me. who are resupplying to the generals and admirals when i was in the navy guess what i was in my twenty's i hate to say this to you because you know but i would need no biograph i didn't need no fire grow when i was in there i didn't have that problem at all when i went to subic bay in the philippines where you got two hundred fifty bars and ten thousand girls every night. jesse didn't need know by a grow who the hell is taking all their spy agora

unbelievable that the government is spending forty million dollars on. our militaries are more trouble than i thought if it takes forty million dollars of to keep them go on. the military changed. by day we didn't need no via i hate to say it but anyway this is absurd because let's get down to seriousness now for a moment if we may military spending is out of whack we spend more than the other twenty three countries in the world combined on military you know where russia ranks fourth they're not even second they're fourth were number one we spend more so when people sit back and say who's really the aggressor throughout the world look at who's spending the money on war the united states and i think we need to

change something you know in the old days in the old days it was called the department of war and they didn't like that name so they switched it to the department of defense well i got news for you we need to go back to the department of war because what the united states is doing today they're not defending themselves they're the aggressors the governor you tell me that they don't need all these weapons to defend democracy do they need the i don't believe no i've bridgette exactly that we have the most powerful well equipped military in the world right now nobody can challenge us are you kidding we are the best here and that out there i'm not criticizing the warriors they're the best but i'm criticizing is our politicians who are financing all this because why do we need when we've got people up in flint michigan that can't even get clean drinking water to drink and we're building new aircraft carriers for billions of

dollars and all this stuff like we don't have enough and what is this fear they keep giving us someone is going to invade us. what isis is going to do in normandy landing in virginia and we're going to have to defend ourselves they always claim all their spondee to defend america from rome. who out there i'm asking you who out there is trying to take over america because it's not the russians putin has got enough trouble in russia it's not everybody out there trying to take us over and yet we're made to believe there's these people waiting right around the corner to come in here and change our way of life my question is who the hell could do that and they could they couldn't do it right now would give star military why do we need a military budget of over eight hundred twenty four billion dollars are you

kidding for what to conduct these wars halfway around the world that accomplish nothing korea accomplished nothing vietnam accomplished nothing iraq accomplish nothing afghanistan has accomplished nothing syria has accomplished nothing all of these wars we've been involved in accomplish nothing governor and the military budget for fiscal year twenty eighteen is over eight hundred twenty four billion dollars like you said once all of the hidden costs are accounted for now the base budget is five hundred seventy four billion dollars but of course that does not include the cost of actual wars which fall under the d.o.d.'s overseas contingency operations budget there are also additional costs associated with counterterrorism efforts veterans affairs and other departments that work to protect the nation gov why is our military budget consistently growing.

well because when you've got a very hungry. thing that must be fed on the daily basis food gets expensive and when you lose unless it was we are now what is the budget of that contingency deal you talked about the one that actually pays for the wars and how many wars are we actually in now you know here's something that's been in my craw a while and it's a little off the subject when i was off the grid last year i got back and i found out that donald trump a pump fifty nine missiles into syria right persia fifty nine missiles into syria and i sat back and i thought wait a minute when did we give the president the ability to go to war without congress approving it and shooting fifty nine missiles into a country is not an act of war so it violated our very constitution where war our

elected officials they were cheering this the country of america cheered when we pumped fifty nine missiles into syria allegedly because of chemical warfare we now give the president where he can matters over women like maybe next year figure a pullout i slugged it and we can fire some missiles and merits they do something or what does this exactly mean i'm confused because in my day according to the constitution the congress had to declare war before you could pump fifty nine missiles into a country the gov all and they told us they were for her mammoth terry and purposes right i've never met a missile or seen one that doesn't kill people how's that humanitary gov this budget also aims to modernize and advance our military capability so they're also investing in things like the f. thirty five joint strike fighter the k.c. forty six tanker a b. twenty one bomber virginia class submarine and also lockheed martin aeronautics

just grant got granted three point seven billion u.s. . tax dollars to produce the f. thirty five fighter jets for our foreign allies like great britain and turkey and then you also have the fact of nato is now being asked to increase their military budget or their budgets and join nato is that going to protect our military well what you're telling me. something that i've known we are the biggest arms dealer in the world and we actually are you know we pump out all the arms that eventually can shoot our own guys can be used against us if something happens and if the roles switch around can be used against us i find that very interesting them when our government comes at us and tells me that i should give up my dogs i should give up my second amendment guns it's the right thing to do well i've already gone on the record and said i'll consider giving up my guns of the second amendment when i

see the united states of america stop being the biggest arms dealer in the world when we quit selling weapons throughout the world then i'll give due consideration to giving mine up locally but until my government shows me that they're for peace and they're not going to build and sell weapons for people to kill each other throughout the world how dare them how dare the liberals to come at me and tell me to give up my weapons when they're signing off on everything that there is stay tuned after this short break we're going to bring you more on the state of the military in america. she should.

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a hay ride when the last time the medical board you say if you have a mess of things the best quarterback of all it's one tough thing that doesn't belong on the beach now i did did you do to question more. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests has thrown down a lot of voices that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i'm a troll on r t america i'll make sure you don't get railroad or you'll get the straight talk and the straight news. questionable. i do not know if the russian state hack into john podesta e-mails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not

provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied to be n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. she asks. anthony diggs joins me now live from los angeles to talk

more about the military anthony is a veteran who served in iraq he's also the c.e.o. of veterans stand an organization helping veterans transition from military to civilian life welcome aboard anthony thanks for coming on to the world according to jesse thank you for having me of a grateful for being here well and for the now the military you know i served way back from sixty nine to seventy four i'm a vietnam veteran and the military always finds money for new weapons like lately this fancy new aircraft carrier they've just built and named after gerald ford and i really find that ironic that they can spend money on an aircraft carrier and for gerald ford and yet flint michigan doesn't even have clean drinking water where

gerald ford came from they got poisoned water but yet they'll build a new carrier why why is it that the government can afford all the stuff for weapons but yet fall short when it comes to supporting people like you and me when we're done serving in a veteran capacity. yeah that's a really good question and i think any one of us would be really hard pressed to find somebody who has served in the u.s. military and seen combat that would disagree with the idea that money is essentially being wasted on war not that war is a waste of money which could be argued in till the cows come home i understand but that money is being wasted on war and you know we can look at it from two angles on the macro we spend nearly two trillion dollars on a war on terrorism over the last fifteen years that hasn't done much to reduce terror or empower or provide strategic and vantage to anybody who is living under

terrorism. and yet it's dealt a good blow to our economy over here we have serious infrastructural issues in the united states that we're not addressing or we're told that we don't have the funds to address like you mentioned what's happening in flint michigan you know and for the what i find remarkable i'm a little older than you i've circled the sun sixty six times now you know i've gone around the sun that's how i call my age now how many times i've circled the sign. you know if you keep your eyes and ears open in my sixty six years i post world war two i was born about the time fifty one when korea but every war in my life time has accomplished nothing every war in my lifetime that i've seen from vietnam to iraq to all of the war on terror is accomplishing nothing and we're channeling all these resources and farms down a cesspool when there is this country going to wake up and understand that war is

not the answer. yes. it's a big it's a big issue and you know when we normally talk about the cost of war we're saying you know eight hundred fifty billion spent in iraq seven hundred twenty something billion spent in afghanistan but we don't always consider you know future costs and obligations that we are going to need to deal with like better in disability event or in health care like if we even if we were to stop our involvement in every military campaign that we are actively participating in right now we would still have fifty and sixty years ahead of us of veteran disability and mental and physical health care for the youngest of the people who are serving today so i'm not quite sure what it will take you know to see you know it's the end war but maybe if some of this money that we are investing into these wars were to

be invested into infrastructure at home education and home community programs maybe we will find ourself one day with a population of people who are saying yeah you know enough is enough we need to invest in things that are constructive and through you know the military is wasted twenty eight million dollars over the last decade by a new forest camouflage uniforms for afghan soldiers now the problem i see years there's not a forest in afghanistan why did you why did they spend twenty eight million dollars and now listen hear me out on this or are they preparing for the next one and this is the sneaky way of doing it of getting through these camouflage sounds like something that would belong to me in southeast asia in the jungles not over in afghanistan why would they spend twenty eight million dollars for forest colors is there a forest in afghanistan. yeah i mean that's kind of silly and you know whether it

is being. you know purchased ahead of time for something that may be planned down the road or is this just a part of what the military industrial complex essentially is which takes taxpayers' dollars filters them through the war on terror or whatever war and then delivers those dollars to the banks of people with special and private interests. and fifty do you you're an iraq veteran do you sit here today and can you tell me the iraq war was a success. the iraq war was absolutely not a success and just like it would be hard to find a veteran who would disagree with the idea that money has been wasted on wars and is being wasted on wars i think you'd be hard pressed to find a veteran of the iraq war or even the afghanistan war that would say these

campaigns were successful and that people across the globe are better off because of them you know what else to anthony i watched the news and they talked about russian aggression now the aggression of russia that's why we have to bring the sanctions against them and all that how come it's never brought up about united states aggression we have invaded iraq who did nothing to us they had nothing to do with nine eleven and i as a civilian thought that was the reason we were going to war was nine eleven iraq had nothing to do with it we invade the country we occupy it we overturn its government and that's not called aggression our announcers and talking heads back here don't loose that is aggression. yeah you know that's just another issue of us really having to when we're trying to figure out in solve these issues that are happening all over the world you know we have to look back at ourselves and say how

are we contributing to these things that are happening in negative ways and yet you know are we being slightly hypocritical here when we are accusing other nations of being brutal and inhumane in the way that they deal with their own people when you know we have a pretty comprehensive history of having done that ourselves we're winding down here and i want to hear go vectoring stand what do you guys working on right now let's talk about your organization i know you were up in the dakotas stopping the pipeline way to go watch bread pre-stamped working on now right now what we are working on well yes so in december we organized the mobilization of more than twenty five hundred veterans service men and women to answer the call that is standing rock sioux we got there within days the army corps of engineers denied the easement for the pipeline to go through and you know there was

a victory to be celebrated at that point but we understood that that was not the end of the battle. half way through january donald trump's first executive memo was to essentially expedite that override any need for an environmental assessment and we went back out there and we were there in february when the national guard and several law enforcement agencies were sent in to remove the last of the on armed peaceful indigenous people and water protectors who had gathered there but what we're doing now is through that time through our involvement in standing rock with twenty five hundred veterans service men and women together it was a reminder to me of. the immense issue that we have in the united states of dealing with veterans and health care. and it really catalyzed what our next project is going to be at without that is too little yes let me interrupt or second that's the thing that bothers me i watch t.v.

today and i see like the wounded warrior fund and all of this stuff out there that hopefully she's doing good but what irks me years that here they are coming to the private sector again asking us to support the veterans financially shouldn't it be the government doing that and not private funds after all it was the government that sent you to war i didn't. absolutely the v.a. health care system is notoriously understaffed overcrowded and there is a huge issue within it of the overprescription of some pretty hard core pharma suit when i left the marine corps i was given seven prescriptions to deal with traumatic brain injury post-traumatic stress and the symptoms related to that and it wasn't until i was taking those pharmaceuticals that i never even considered you know the idea of self harm and think the heavens i have friends and family who stuck with me through tough times and helped me distance myself from those

medications and find alternatives that would i mean the issue was you know i go to a psychologist to say hey i'm not feeling well and i'm prescribed a medication that doesn't allow me to feel at all and that stuff is not a solution it's not something that can be achieved through a pharmaceutical so i mean our next mission is to because of all of that to highlight the awareness or to raise awareness on how medicinal cannabis can be used to treat the symptoms related to post-traumatic stress and sort of the brain injury yes we're running out of time i want to try to thank you thank you on behalf of all that ridge for the job that you're doing out there because you know he had a great job out there and also really quickly before i let you go i wanted to ask you are you hopeful for what's happening with the dakota access pipeline that last year it's now a global issue over three hundred eighty tribes have now sued and like you said the

army corps of engineers is looking into the environmental effects do you are you optimistic that anything will happen positive for the tribes. i'm not terribly optimistic but i always have hope and i mean seeing how many trillions of dollars they stand to profit off of this pipeline running i know it's going to be an issue long into the future so got to stay active and state vigilant. you know it's people like anthony that make us veterans proud people that come home after the fact and pick up the gauntlet like he is up to this guy is phenomenal and my i don't have a hat on but if i could i'd tip it to him right now and let everything we talked about today governor what are your final thoughts my final thoughts again are why is it up to us the pot private sector to carry the water again for the government the government sends these people off to war and when they come home they're basically abandoned and then it's up to people like anthony people like all of us

to chip in and support these veterans when it should be done by the government who sent them to war we didn't do that the government did and by the way there's so many other things that the government could be spending its money on in that instead of all of these things with the war is absolutely i mean who all we do is go to war in my sixty six years on the planet now i can't tell you one war that has accomplished anything or what it was designed to do i can't i can't see one war where we can claim victory you don't get victory so why do we continue you know the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result you're living in some united states insanity here when it comes to war. that's all we have time for today thanks for tuning in send us your comments on facebook and twitter this is an interactive show and we want you the viewers to be part of it so the season will be featuring some of the best

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